Margot Robbie
Raised in Australia by a single mom, with three siblings, Barbie star Margot Robbie had some very normal jobs before breaking into show business — she cleaned houses, and worked at a surf shop and at the Subway sandwich chain, as she told MovieMaker in a 2020 interview.
As a teenager, she landed a guest role on the Australian soap Neighbors, but impressed everyone so much that she ended up becoming a series regular. In her Wolf of Wall Street audition, she caught Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s attention by spontaneously slapping DiCaprio. (You have to take risks when you don’t have connections.)
She recently told Vanity Fair that fame arrived faster than she was prepared for: “Something was happening in those early stages and it was all pretty awful, and I remember saying to my mom, ‘I don’t think I want to do this.’ And she just looked at me, completely straight-faced, and was like, ‘Darling, I think it’s too late not to.’ That’s when I realized the only way was forward.”
All her hard work paid off: Barbie, which the 33-year-old also produced, is one of the top-grossing U.S. movies of all time.
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